Orquestra Borinquen - free at the Cove in Alameda 8/8

My friend Ricky Gomez playes in one of the most prolific Salsa Bands of the bay area, Orquestra Borinquen.

They will be playing a free show at the Cove in Alameda 8/8 at 5pm, info below.

You can check out their myspace site for a couple of tracks of their material, schedule and fotos etc.

http://www.myspace.com/orquestaborinquen

Concerts at the Cove

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Event Info: (510) 523-5955 Fri 8/8/2008 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. fee/admission: Free

Crab Cove Visitor Center 1252 McKay St. Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 521-6887 With Orquesta Borinquen. --Chronicle www.westalamedabusiness.com

Here is Ricky ripping it up at a show in Sf.




We met when he and his friend Victor came by to have me take a look at an old set of gon bops bongo. They were in bad shape, but i was willing to give it a go... but when we discovered a missing piece to the macho, the set was read its last rights, unfortunately.

A simlar set went for sale on ebay at less than 250 the other day, so they wont be worth the cash to send it out to Matt Smith, who is the only one i know who can bring it back to life... sad story... yet another vintage mahogany gon bops set to disintegrate into history.

Lets morn the set in the classic island way... with some dancing at Rickys show August 8th! see you there.

Tony